Herzeele (noble family)
Herzeele is the name of a noble family from Germany and the Netherlands . One branch received the title of Spanish margrave .
timeline
The family comes from Herzele in Flanders and has always received the same coat of arms. The spelling varies from Herzeele, Herzelles, Herselles to Hersel. One branch of the family emigrated to what is now the Netherlands in the 16th or 17th century. They also settled in Antwerp and their spelling was Herzelles. One member, Wilhelm Philipp van Herzeele, Herr auf Fauquez and Ittre , Royal Spanish Higher State Councilor in the Spanish Netherlands , obtained the Spanish awning dignity. His dominions Fauquez and Ittre were elevated to marquisate in 1689 and 1703 . The third Marquis, Ambroise-Joseph de Herzelles , was appointed superintendent and general manager of finances in the Austrian Netherlands by Maria Theresa . A branch of the Antwerp Herzelles, Van Herzeele, came to Amsterdam at the beginning of the 18th century and was part of the local patriciate . In 1818 it received the new Dutch nobility and in 1830 the title of baron . The branch, which originally remained in Germany, was named as Lords of Bodenheim , Laurenzberg and Vochem until 1771 . In the middle of the 19th century, descendants of the Dutch branch came back to Germany. The German natural scientist Albrecht Freiherr von Herzeele (* 1821) was an important family member . In 1830 Albrecht's father Cornelis Freiherr von Herzeele acquired the Vietgest Castle . The sex died out in 1960.
family members
- Wilhelm Philipp van Herzeele, 1st Marquis of Fauquez and Ittre, Royal Spanish Higher State Council in the Spanish Netherlands
- Jean-Baptiste de Herzelles, 2nd Marquis, master of dragons in the service of the King of Spain
- Guillaume-Philippe d'Herzelles, 1691: Chancellor of Brabant
- Guillaume-Philippe de Herzelles (1684 Castello di Nivell – 1744 Antwerp), Bishop of Antwerp
- Ambroise-Joseph de Herzelles (1680–1759), 3rd Marquis, military and politician in Spanish and Austrian services
- Christine-Philippine de Herzelles (1728–1793), Chief Chamberlain, confidante of Maria Theresa and Joseph II.
- Albrecht von Herzeele (* 1821), German scientist
- Jeroen Van Herzeele (* 1965), Belgian jazz musician
literature
- Genealogical-historical nobility lexicon. 1st part, column 837.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 4 Voigt, Leipzig 1863, p. 341
- Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, pp. 103-104
- Nederland's Adelsboek. 1903, 1905, 1909, 1914.
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon, Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg / Lahn 1984, p. 163